LNG

Enagás, the Spanish gas grid and LNG terminals operator as well as a shareholder in the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), said the US was its main liquefied natural gas supplier in the first quarter followed by Algeria and Nigeria as LNG deliveries increased substantially and European Union gas supplies became tight.

Woodside Petroleum, the operator of the North West Shelf and Pluto LNG export plants in Western Australia, said first-quarter LNG sales revenues increased to US$2.04 billion from US$838 million in the prior-year quarter as plans advanced for liquefaction and feed-gas expansions.

The Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands said in its first-quarter report that liquefied natural gas throughput increased by 77.7 percent via the Gate LNG import terminal while the Dutch are also moving ahead with a second facility at the port of Eemshaven.

Free ReadJapanese LNG industry participants, export plant operator Inpex Corp. and engineering company JGC Holdings are teaming up with the Thai national energy provider, which has increasing natural gas and LNG stakes, to develop a carbon-capture and storage (CCS) project in Thailand. Thailand’s Public Company Exploration and Production (PTTEP) has stakes…